Bangour General Hospital

This material is held atLothian Health Services Archive

  • Reference
    • GB 239 LHB40
  • Dates of Creation
    • 1939-1988
  • Name of Creator
  • Language of Material
    • English.
  • Physical Description
    • 5.3 shelf metres: bound volumes, papers

Scope and Content

Patients (bound records) 1959-1988; patients (unbound records) 1939-1948; buildings 1953-1954

Administrative / Biographical History

Bangour General Hospital was built during the Second World War as an annexe to Bangour Village Hospital for Mental Diseases and was run by the Department of Health for Scotland under the Emergency Hospitals Scheme. When the demand for beds to treat war-time casualties did not materialise, accommodation was made available to a neuro-surgical unit working in conjunction with the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh. Tuberculosis patients also began to be admitted, and facilities to treat plastic and facio-maxillary surgery and thoracic surgery were established. In 1974 it was decided to build a new general hospital for West Lothian at Livingston, and in 1989 services began to be transferred there. Bangour General Hospital closed in the early 1990s.

Arrangement

Chronological within record class

Access Information

Normal 75 year Scottish closure rules apply

Acquisition Information

Jim Eunson, West Lothian NHS Trust

Note

Compiled by Mike Barfoot and Jenny McDermott using existing handlists

Other Finding Aids

Manual item-level descriptive list available

Custodial History

Records held within the National Health Service prior to transfer

Accruals

Further accessions are expected

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Bibliography

Hendrie, W.F. and MacLeod, D.A.D. The Bangour story: a history of Bangour Village and General Hospitals. Edinburgh: Mercat Press, 1992